CRAMER v. CONSOLIDATED FREIGHTWAYS INC.

Nos. 98-55657, 98-56041 and 98-56154.

255 F.3d 683 (2001)

Lloyd W. CRAMER; Daniel E. Lipich, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CONSOLIDATED FREIGHTWAYS INC., Defendant-Appellee. Guillermo Alfaro, Plaintiff, and Dennis R. Blevins; Ray R. Casio; Steve Cunningham; Rick Dewoody; Alejandro Garcia; David V. Garcia; Raul C. Garcia; James A. Greco; Bruce A. Harvey; John K. Hatfield; Robert W. Hatfield; Lee A. Ingram; Zeno King, Jr.; John L. Lacroix; Gregory A. Landavazo; Melvin Leo Lewis; Enrique Lopez; Herbert Marcus; Ignacio V. Ochoa; Brian K. Pagne; Manuel Parra; James A. Proitte; Carlos Rivera; Harold James Taylor, Jr.; Thomas A. Scott; David W. Stephens; J.B. Stewart; Alfonso Wagner; Larry A. Wells; Robert P. Williams; Eric J. Wright; William A. Yesford; Miguel Abarajas; Sandra Ray Ambrose; Guillermo Amesola; Abelardo Apuan; Michael Vincent Arbanas; Carlos Argandora; Jose Abriero; Marcario Acellano; Fernando Avila; Michael E. Bannan; Arnold A. Barajas; Robert Barras; Mike Bartley; David Barton; Jan K. Beber; William Otis Beggs; Craig Anthony Berlene; Paul Eugene Boatwright; Brigido Bolivar; Raymond Bonia; Richard Boon; Roger J. Brass; Gary Brooks; Michael D. Brown; Joanne Brummer; Scott Bubier; Eduardo S. Cardenas; Manuel Cardona; Mario Carillo; Harris A. Carter; Richard Ceniceros; Jack Clark; Kenneth L. Clark; Fernando A. Clavijo; Robert L. Clinton; Richard Contreras; Rance D. Cooper; Anthony Cordero; Armando Cordero; John L. Cordero; Rudy H. Couthart; Charles Davidson, II; Thomas Dersghy; Philip Digenova; Charles Dirner; Jimmy Dixon; Al Dorame; Eddie Shepherd; Clifford J. Felton; Mike Fitzgerald; Jose Luis Flores; Rafael O. Flores; Ed Foor; Jerry France; Albert Alex Franco; Ramon B. Franco; Michael Gambino; Anthony Gapdora; Rober T. Garcia; Donald K. Glover; David P. Gomez; Manuel E. Gonzales; Gerald W. Goodwin; Devin Jonathan Gordon; Jonathan J. Gordon; Jerry Goforth; Bernal Gregetz; Jose Gutierrez; Jesse D. Haley; James Harper, Jr.; Sandra Heatley; Patrick L. Heron, Jr.; Randall William Hobbs; Narvell E. Hooks; Steve Hopkins; Tim Hose; Gale Lynn Hampton; James Hurlburt; John W. Jackson; James Robinson; William Jarrell; Alfredo Jimenez; Gary E. Johnson; Peter Karaban; Robert M. Kirkland; Larry Rissel; Cary Knight; Anne M. Knutzen; Patrick J. Knutzen; Ervin Kroll; Frank P. Lagumina; Herclio Lemus; Eloria Reyes; Richard E. Lucero; Enrique Mancilla; Clifford E. Maples; Guillermo Martin; Reguio Martin; Gilbert M. Martinez; Ronald A. Matthews; David E. May; Michael J. McCarthy; Don R. McClary; William R. McFarland; Saul A. McKechan; P.L. Medina; Pedro A. Monge; Alfred Montoya; Arthur Mora; Marcos Morales; Roy L. McFoot; Dewayne Mortensen, II; Mark Mulhern; Oscar Munoz; John Murray; Rayno Norducci; Hector Ochoa; Jorge Ochoa; Michael O'Neal; Luis E. Ortega; Gilbert George Ortiz; Victor Parker; David Perales; Isidro Perales; Robert Portillo; Robin J. Quigley; Joseph R. Quilty, II; Robert Reynoso; Bryan Richard; Carlos Orozco Rivas; Gilbert C. Rivera; Howard Robinson; Audias Rodriguez; Hugo Rodriguez; Ruben Rodriguez; Tomas A. Rodriguez; John Rojas; Javier Roman; Armando Romero; Robert A. Rosas; Eugene A. Rose; Francisco J. Ruiz; C.W. Ryan; Catherine Schatz; Dennis Schatz; Steven Schilling; Norman W. Schoolcraft; Ernie Scolari; John P. Sorouse; Joseph Selcho; James Shinn; Nathan Shropshire; Richard F. Shumway; David Manual Sierras; David H. Smith, Jr.; Robert P. Smith; Clarence Satterland; James Bobby L. Stone; Alejandro Tirado; Fabrizio Torres; Brian Unzicker; Frank Valdez; Mario A. Vasquez, Jr.; Mario A. Vasquez, Sr.; Richard J. Vargas; Alexander Villa, Jr.; Guadalupe Reyes Waggoner; Waymond A. Walker; Robert Welsh; William M. Weston, Jr.; Robert Fritz Westreicher; Judy Len Wilson; Gary Wayne Yates; Denna Jean Yasania; Donald Ray Yoder; Lyle Archibald; Ewald Barth; Leroty O. Bell; Henry Camacho; Nick J. Carender; K.W. Carrithers; Jose Casillas; Armando Coronado; Richard Cota; Donald K. Cronk; Richard Joseph Diaz; Jack E. Dobson; Francisco Esparza; Jose C. Flores; Ernest W. Frick; Rudy Gomez; Joseph Gonzales; Michael Groom; Joaquin Hernandez; John Alfred Hill; Terry L. Johnson; Oscar H. Martin; Ely McDonagle; Fulton L. Mitchell; Grady Richard Nutt; Gilbert Ortiz, Jr.; Michael T. Pauch; Jeffrey M. Phillips; Michael R. Preston; Billy C. Ratledge; Alfred G. Rodriguez; Gilbert Rosales; Oliver Sonjy; John Sturges; Donald F. Woods; F. Thomas Thorne; Ronald M. Aubert Harvey George Beach; Paul Edward Becker; Harold Burnley; Kim Harsha; Joseph Chavez; Paul E. Cox; Joseph DeFrancis; Bill Joe McFarland; William E. Muldoon; Jose A. Udell Peterson; Andrew Slaughter; Amos Taylor; Jim H. Willoughby; Richard Alvarado; Henry H. Andrade; Gary A. Ramirez; Armand S. Ramirez; Masao Shobe; Noble A. Carson; Eric G. Fromm; Lue G. Gary; Richard Anthony Leon; James R. O'Neill; Jerry Strother Todd T. Stevens, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Consolidated Freightways Corporation, a Delaware corporation; CNF Transportation, Inc., a Delaware corporation, aka Consolidated Freightways, Inc.; Mark Epstein, an individual; Douglas Schuster, an individual; Doe Security Installation Company, Defendants-Appellees. Charles R. Davidson, II; Guillermo Alfaro; David Fitzhugh; Steven B. Bugarian; Ignacio Lawton; Drew Wheat; Donald Stubblefield, Plaintiffs, and Theresa Hoffman; Masao Shobe, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Consolidated Freightways Corporation, a Delaware corporation, aka Consolidated Freightways Corporation of Delaware; CNF Transportation, Inc., a Delaware corporation, aka Consolidated Freightways; Mark Epstein, an individual; Douglas Schuster, an individual, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 15, 2001.

As Amended August 27, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay Cordell Hormone, Malena R. Leclair and Susan Ghormley, Horton, Barbaro & Reilly, Santa Ana, California, for plaintiffs-appellants Cramer et al., and Matthew L. Taylor and Michael D. Myers, Myers, Taylor & Siegel, Claremont, California, for plaintiffs-appellants Alfaro et al. and Hoffman et al.

Louise Ann Fernandez, Robert E. Mangels, Marc Marmaro, and Neil O. Andrus, Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, Los Angeles, California, and William A. Norris and Edward P. Lazarus, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Los Angeles, California, for the defendants-appellees.

Before: Mary M. Schroeder, Chief Judge, Harry Pregerson, Stephen Reinhardt, Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, A. Wallace Tashima, Sidney R. Thomas, M. Margaret McKeown, Raymond C. Fisher, Ronald M. Gould, Richard A. Paez and Richard C. Tallman, Circuit Judges.


Argued and Submitted December 18, 2000 — San Francisco, California.

Opinion by Judge Fisher; Concurrence by Judge Richard C. Tallman; Dissent by Judge O'Scannlain.

FISHER, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to decide whether a plaintiff's state law privacy claim, based on California's penal code, is preempted under § 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act ("LMRA"), 29 U.S.C. § 185....

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